Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.

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• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • You
  • Events

• In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Animals
  • London
  • Elephant

• Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Time
  • Control
  • Model

• I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Why
  • Man

• I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Take
  • Normally

• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • More
  • Four
  • Thousand

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Always
  • Someone
  • Toy

• I don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, for the sick and for those who had died. It was a natural part of our lives.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Sick

• I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Me
  • Information
  • Try

• I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• No country in the world is going to recognize that Ariel and Maaleh Adumim and Beit El are a sovereign part of Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Country
  • Israel

• How wonderful it was to sit on a set with Norman Mailer and get to know him.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Know
  • Wonderful
  • Sit

• My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Good
  • Home
  • Remember

• I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Know
  • Taken
  • Look

• With 'That Awkward Moment', you could argue I'm just playing the girlfriend of Zac Efron, but the director was such a creative force and let me make her my own. I loved being part of something that felt so relevant and fresh.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Moment
  • Creative
  • Force

• So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Four
  • Daughters
  • Five

• Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.

  

  Dexter Holland The Offspring
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Truth
  • Magic
  • Leaving

• These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Experience

• Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we're turned away, sent to the ghetto.

  

  Hal Duncan
  • Today
  • Water
  • Ghetto

• We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them are worthwhile.

  

  L.A. Paul
  • Different
  • Philosophical
  • Philosopher

• I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Giving